Series Mania Title ‘Two Summers’ Broken Down by Creator Paul Baeten
variety.comHolly Jones An idyllic private island retreat sees a set of estranged, longtime companions reunite after nearly 30 years of jobs and distance pulling them in opposite directions.
Amidst the celebration, nefarious footage of a transgression against a female friend mysteriously resurfaces. The guilty party seeks to figure out the source of the revealing video while desperately trying to keep it under wraps from the others.“Two Summers,” the eight-episode psychological thriller produced by Antwerp-based Panenka, is equal parts whodunnit and character study.
The start of the series reveals shared tragedies via flashbacks of the carefree summer, turned on its head when a fire rips through the vacation home, taking innocence with it.
Back to the present day, tension mounts as the crew convenes to fete amidst a handful of perplexing circumstances. Written by Paul Baeten and Tom Lenaerts (“Over Water”), this Flemish show saw the best kick-off ever for a fiction series with its VRT streaming launch, seeing 1 million starts in less than a week.
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